Phew - lots of layers at Passion for Promarkers!

Now I say phew, because the new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers is Lots of Layers, which is much more my style but I'm still here with another male card - I have so many male birthdays this month!! Luckily Mo Manning always has just the right image, and this one is no exception - Computer Guy which you can find here.

I've used about four layers - typically, one piece of Kraft that I embossed with a Tim Holtz watch face folder, you can hardly see!!  As the image is so busy, I've added little else apart from the Whimsy Film Clapperboard die and sentiment and a few nailheads.  The little charm I thought echoed the swirls on the Papermania papers but again I seemed to have covered most of these up!

Our fab sponsor for this challenge is the Digi Stamp Boutique and you could win 6 fab images from the store!!

Hope you can play along with us at Passion for Promarkers this week - check out the rest of the awesome DT makes here!

CAS at Basic Grey Challenges (I can't do CAS!)

We have a new challenge for you today over at Basic Grey Challenges - Clean and Simple.  Trouble is, I really struggle with this style which I love and admire in the more capable hands of so many other crafters out there.  I've looked at my teamies' cards for this fortnight's challenge and have ooed and aahed at them ( see them here) but mine just looks ......well, boring!! May be it's because I needed to make a male card, which may be a lethal combo for me with CAS!!

Anyhow, on with the deets - my Basic Grey papers are Little Black Dress, and Basics Kraft.  The image is from a  new Papermania set of different eras and makes of cars, very useful for those (boring) male cards!!  The flags were cut with a Sizzix die that I bought from Ally Pally back in April (bargain bucket price of £2!)- I cut it using Core card and then sanded off to reveal the white.  The Way to Go sentiment is from a little American Crafts stamp set cut with a Dienamics die to which I've then added the  doodled border. 

And that's my CAS card!!

We have our regular sponsor, Simon Says Stamp, this fortnight, with their usual fabulous $25 dollar voucher on offer to one lucky winner! 

 

We're off to a wedding reception later this evening - have a wonderful day, Amy and Andy - congratulations to you both!!  I hope the weather holds off for them later this afternoon - it's been so cold and wet here the last week.  (It's also my 28th wedding anniversary today - who said it wouldn't last!!!)

Whiff of Joy DT Card

My photos today are taken with my new camera - to be honest, I thought I would get better quality pics, but maybe I just need to understand how to use the thing properly!!

Anyway, this is for our new challenge at Whiff of Joy and this fortnight we have a fabulous sketch designed by our lovely Kathrin.

I've used Willow Sitting Bride  and papers from DCWV from the  Vintage Stack. 

My flowers are a mixutre of chiffon and paper -  the chiffon are Bo Bunny and Prima and the paper ones are from Wild Orchid crafts, as is the guipere Lace.  The leaf flourish is a Cheery Lyn die, the frame is from Memory box and the sentiment dies are Hero arts. 

I've also scattered a few pearls about to add to the vintagy feel.

This fortnight's sponsor is the fabulous Whff of Joy themselves with a lovely 15% discount off your next order being up for grabs!! 



If you want to see the fabulous cards made by my WOJ teamies - check them out here.

I'm back to work today after my week off, so feeling a bit glum!!! Hope your day has something nicer in store for you!

A new sketch at Sketch N Stash

Hi everyone, have just dried out after the wash out here in London yesterday!  We went up to Tower Bridge and had a fantastic view of the pageant and the Royal Barge, despite the downpour, it was amazing and a sight to behold!

II'm sufficiently dry enough to post my card for the new challenge at SNS where we have the following fabulous sketch designed by our lovely Sarah-Jane.

Now you know what it's like when you get new stash, you just have to use it, and this lattice die from Paper Trey Ink was a birthday present that I just had to use!!  So I slightly elongated that panel of the sketch to accommodate it!! The image is a gorgeous new one from Mo Manning called Alisa with Roses which you can find here, another new item to my collection, but the rest of my elements have pretty much been in my stash awhile, including the corner dies, the small floral punches from Stampin Up and the ticket die.  I didn't add much else in the way of embellishing as I loved the simple effect of the image against the trellis! 

This fortnight at SNS  we're being sponsored by My Mum's Craft Shop and we have a wonderful £10 voucher to give away!



Hope you can play along, and if you'd like any more inspiration, check out the SNS teams' wonderful creations here!

I'm also entering my card into the current  Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is Anything Goes

I have another busy day today - lunch out followed by a family gathering later - enjoy your day!!

Something a little different and Thank you!!

Hi everyone, just popping in to say hello and thank you for all your lovely birthday wishes!!   I've reached my half century but that's ok, it's only a number!!  But it did mean I got lots of extra special goodies, including a new camera, lots of PTI goodies (from hubby but thanks to best matey, Lesley!!).  Nick did suggest that I really didn't need any more craft stuff - how could he say such things on my birthday!!!

I've had a few days off work and I thought I would get lots of time for crafting and blogging but you know it'a already been so hectic - son's degree show last night, and then still lots of things going on over the next few days.

Anyway, the above was a card made at my lovely friend, Alex's house a few weeks ago, made by inking the embossing folder before running it throught my Bug to get this fab letterpress effect!  The label and flourish stamps and dies were from Alex's stash and I now have these on my new PTI wish list!!

Oh and to celebrate my half century, I'm going to sort out a little candy shortly!!

Passion For Promarkers - Olympic theme

Hello - oh it's lovely to back with the fab  girls on the Passion for Promarkers Challenge after the team break and this week's theme has been chosen by the fabulous Debs with a very topical theme of the Olympics - which, just in case you'd been off planet for a while, are due to be held in London very shortly!!!  You can either use the colours from the Olympic rings below as inspiration, or choose another theme related to the games in London somehow!

 

I've gone slightly left field with my card and used this great image from Mo Manning of  a couch potato athlete!! - Game on.  Thought I'd be a bit ironic but I have used the UK flag colours of red, white and blue - I hope we'll be seeing a lot of Union Jacks taking pride of place in the medal ceremonies!!

My papers are the delicious Portabello Road papers, (12 x 12 papers) by Papermania, the bunting was cut with a Stampin Up punch and the lettering was from stash.

 

We're being sponsored by the fabulous Joanna Sheen, she of great prices and almost free postage, not forgetting the great range of goodies in store!!

You can check out the fab makes of my fab PFP teamies here - hope you can play along!! 

Just also wanted to apologise for not doing much blog commenting recently but I'm off work for a week after today so I hope I can catch up with you then!

Basic Grey DT Card - Diamond Jubilee & Guest Designer call!!

Happy Saturday - hope you're going to make hay while the sun shines this weekend - it's scorchio here in the UK!!

We have a new challenge for you today over at Basic Grey Challenges and as we're celebrating our lovely Liz's 60 years on the throne, we have a very appropriate theme of

Diamond Jubilee

  so you could be inspired to use Crowns, or the Royalty theme, or just some bling, as long as you Basic Grey products of course!

I've gone with the Crown theme and a fair bit of bling with my card!  This is the gorgeous Kissy ( Mwoahhh!) which can be found here at Mo's Digital Pencil

My papers are Basic Grey Lauderdale and the scroll and Celebrate are Basic Grey    rub ons.

Our fabulous sponsor, as always, is Simon Says Stamp with a blingtastic voucher worth $25 dollars to spend in their on-line store.

(Please note: This is a voucher code that entitles the winner to a $25 saving off their order inSimon Says Stamp, P+P charges will still apply unless the conditions are met to earn free P+P, please check here if you would like to see these conditions)

You can take a peek at the blinged up creations of my fabulous teamies at BG challenges here ( and you'll also be able to find out about the chance to be a guest designer with us at Basic Grey Challenges!)



It's the perfect weather to be in the garden!!

Hi everyone - wow it's been fabulous weather here in the UK for the last few days.  For all that I moan about going to work, today, we had an office barbeque on our roof terrace that overlooks the Thames - my office is directly opposite Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.  I have to say it was so lovely - what a way to spend your lunch hour!

Anyway, this cute little gardener clearly knows that it's been hot, hot, hot and needs to water his plants!!  Love how Mo has captured the intense concentration on his face!!!  You can find him here at Mo's Digital Pencil.

Perfect for using bright primary colours too.  The papers are October Afternoon, the flower border across the bottom is a Memory Box die and the sentiment is, I think, from a Hero Arts set. 

One of the not so good things about where I work is the train and tube journey into work - it's been a nightmare the last couple of days, goodness only knows what it'll be like when the Olympics are on!  I'm going to cool  off a bit now and then catch up with some blogging tonight!

Whiff of Joy Challenge! and a DT call!

Morning - got to be quick, I'm running late!! 

Anyway, I'm back again with my card for the new challenge at Whiff of Joy Challenges and our theme this fortnight is to use a a Metal Embellishment of  some sort on your make.  Nice one!!  

I've used Fall Willow with Grapes, which I bought as part of lovely set a little while ago now! 

My Papers are a new pad by Prima called Fairy Belle - they are just so soft and beautiful.  My metla embellies are the brad and the pin which I made by adding a couple of pearl beads and a metal spacer in between.

You can check out the fabulous cards of  the WOJ team here - oh and if you'd like to join this fab team of ladies, we're having a DT call, so pop on over to the challenge blog to find out more!

Last but certainly not least, we're being sponsored by Simon Says Stamp this fortnight, with an amazing $25 dollar voucher to spend with them! 

Right, I'm really late now, so much dash!!

Passion for Promarkers Anniversary Card

Hello again, today, it's time for the two teams at Passion For Promarkers to come together to celebrate the Third Anniversary of the challenge that the fabulous Denise and Gina set up to celebrate all things Letraset - it's also very special to me as it was my first ever DT post!!

 As it's a special challenge we have a really easy theme for you of "birthdays", although please note we are only accepting a maximum of 3 entries per person for this one challenge only. To be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products (i.e. pro, flex, tria or aqua markers) and of course follow the theme. As always we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs and our sponsors have been very generous as they always are. Here we go.....

Letraset are offering 3 lucky winners 1 pack of Limited Edition “Summer” promarkers.

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Joanna Sheen are offering 1 prize of a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

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Crafty Emma’s store is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

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Polka Doodles are offering 2 lucky winners a copy of her mini CD collection “Pretty Sweet”.

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Bugaboo are offering once lucky winner 7 digi images of their choice.

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Pink Gem designs are offering one lucky winner their digi set called “Ewe make me smile”.

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DigiStamp Boutique are offering 6 digi images to one lucky winner.

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Bearly Mine Designs are offering one lucky winner 2 digi sets of their choice.

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Whimsy Stamps/Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $15.00 worth of digi papers.
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Wow, that's some haul of prizes!!

On to my card, which  I made with this fabulous lady, Blanche from Saturated Canary.

I've teamed her up with some fabby Memory Box papers, Viola - I always think purple shaded papers are not so readily available so I love this set! I've also used two co-ordingating Marianne dies - the rose corner and matching border. 

The very top lacy strip  was cut with a Tim Holtz vintage lace die.  The sentiments are from Whimsy Stamps - so perfect with this glamour puss! The poppy flower is from Wild Orchid Crafts - they are some of my favourite blooms at the minute!

The fabulous girls on the PFP teams have made some gorgeous cards to celebrate our anniversary - check them out here.

I'm also entering my card into the current Saturated Canary Challenge which is May Flowers.

Thanks everyone, for all your well wishes for my big sis!  I'm pleased to report that she is already home with her daughters and husband taking care of her